Composer Man Moon, who scored a handful of in style animated TV collection, and was most identified for Nickelodeon’s “Pretty OddParents,” has died. He was 63.
The Emmy nominee was killed Thursday morning in a site visitors collision, his household introduced in a Fb put up on Saturday. Savannah Moon, the composer’s daughter, mentioned in a cellphone interview that her father was using his Vespa scooter when he died. The Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed on its database that Moon died of traumatic accidents.
Moon’s three youngsters, daughters Chelsea and Savannah and son Dusty, fondly remembered the composer in cellphone interviews as a “strolling jukebox” who had an accepting, playful and peaceable strategy in his private {and professional} lives. He was a faithful husband, father and grandfather, his household mentioned.
“There was at all times music however it was by no means about him being tremendous good at music despite the fact that he was simply so extremely gifted,” Dusty mentioned. “The music was by no means about him. It was nearly love and connection.”
“He was excellent at highlighting different individuals and highlighting what was vital, whether or not it was by music or whether or not it was by what he mentioned to individuals,” Savannah mentioned.
Man Moon lengthy scored the magical antics of “Pretty OddParents,” an animated collection that tracks the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy with fairy godparents who grant him needs to unravel his on a regular basis issues. Moon was the present’s composer for greater than a decade from 2001 to 2017 and scored greater than 150 episodes, in keeping with IMDb. He earned 4 Emmy nominations for his work on “Pretty OddParents.”
A Wisconsin native, Moon additionally labored on “Pretty OddParents” creator Butch Hartman’s different collection “Danny Phantom” and “T.U.F.F. Pet.” Hartman mourned Moon in an Instagram story Saturday.
“I’ve no phrases but as a result of there are none satisfactory sufficient,” Hartman mentioned, including that he’ll make a press release at a later time.
Moon, a graduate of the College of Arizona Faculty of Music, began his profession within the Eighties, contributing to initiatives together with “The Land Earlier than Time,” the animated “Addams Household” collection, “Depart It to Beaver” and “Johnny Bravo.” Within the mid-’90s and early aughts, Moon supplemented his collection work with movies together with “The Brady Bunch Film,” “Minority Report,” “Battle Membership,” “Evan Almighty” and “Leap Yr.”
His Nickelodeon credit additionally embrace “ChalkZone,” a number of “Pretty OddParents” and “Jimmy Neutron” crossover specials, “Again on the Barnyard” and “Massive Time Rush.” Lately, Moon turned his focus to live-action and unbiased initiatives together with TV drama “The Inexperienced Veil” starring John Leguizamo and the 2024 movie “Forty-Seven Days with Jesus.” He was final credited in 2025 as a composer for “The Artist,” a collection from streaming service the Community.
Moon, an Annie Awards and BMI Movie & TV Awards winner, integrated his passions for music in household life, from expressing his every day observations in a sing-songy method to taking part in the piano to entertain family and friends. Regardless of the accolades for work, Moon would have been most happy with his collaborations along with his youngsters, who all shared his musical passions, Chelsea mentioned.
“We’re his legacy. He was so happy with us and so proud to work with us,” she mentioned, including “he would in all probability say that was his biggest life’s accomplishments — to have us.”
Moon’s youngsters underlined his devoted religion, which he balanced along with his full-time profession as a composer. His household mentioned Moon typically melded his religion along with his love and his connections within the music world, from producing church musical occasions to introduce fellow worshipers to new types of Christian music to directing his church’s youth ministry alongside his spouse when his youngsters have been youthful.
“He simply embodied the center of Jesus to welcome everybody. He simply deeply beloved God in a quite simple manner the place there was by no means a second the place anybody felt excluded in his presence or othered,” Chelsea mentioned.
Man Moon’s three grownup youngsters described him as a “strolling jukebox” who had an accepting, playful and peaceable strategy in his private {and professional} lives.
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“He was not unique and he was not an elitist, “ Savannah mentioned. “He was simply so beneficiant along with his time and his acceptance of individuals.”
Moon incurred tinnitus following an harm to his eardrum in current years, which impacted his capability to work. Nonetheless, he remained adventurous and loved using round San Pedro on his Vespa, Chelsea mentioned.
Along with his youngsters, Moon is survived by his spouse, Jennifer Moon, his dad and mom, two older sisters and 7 grandchildren with an eighth on the way in which.
The household mentioned in its Fb assertion that they plan to rejoice Moon’s life on Feb. 7, the composer’s birthday. The memorial in Los Angeles will probably be adopted by one other in Wisconsin at a later date.
